Comments on: 5 Massive Screw-Ups in Paleontology

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:07:18 +0000

No, Littlefoot is a band.

By: Shayla

Shayla — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:55:33 +0000

So, Littlefoot was a lie?

By: Joe in PA

Joe in PA — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:19:12 +0000

I thought for sure making the T-Rex out to be some kind of apex predator was going to be on here. They now think it was more of a big scary scavenger/thief.

By: Pauli Ojala

Pauli Ojala — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Of course the ancient (wo)man saw them:
htt p://w ww.helsinki.fi /~pjojala/Dinoglyphs.h tm

They are documented not only in the classic books from the antiquities, but also as drawings, mosaics, bronze seals, cave paintings and even in garments from South America.

Pauli Ojala
biochemist
Helsinki, Fine land

By: arfies

arfies — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:48:12 +0000

In my second grade class (this would’ve been 1994 or so), we had a dinosaur unit, and I actually grew up knowing about the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus difference because of an interesting demonstration my teacher did: I and another girl who looked sort of like me were told to stand up in front. She was an Apatosaurus, who was discovered first; I was the Brontosaurus who was discovered later but was actually the same kind of dinosaur, so I was the sad Brontosaurus who never was. :p

(BTW, my spellchecker underlined “Apatosaurus” while leaving “Brontosaurus” be. Shame on you, Firefox!)

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:11:25 +0000

I’m going to have to disagree with #5.

A Dragon far more closely resembles many types of dinosaurs than a Griffin does.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:54:12 +0000

Dean: Dino was a Snorkasaurus, which is of course completely fictional. But “The Flintstones” is probably more responsible than anything else for propagation of the name Brontosaurus. Of course, what do you expect from a cartoon where humans and dinosaurs coexisted?:)

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:50:23 +0000

@ Celeste M.
you’d think by the 90′s they’d have gotten it right too. I had no idea either that a Brontosaurs didn’t exist.

also we have a partial skeleton of one of those giant sloths at our state museum in Raleigh, NC and it’s kinda terrifying to see. hard to imagine they’re related to the slow moving tree-dweller type of today.

By: Celeste M.

Celeste M. — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:49:45 +0000

Huh, crazy! I was always under the impression that Apatosaurus was the “new name” for Brontosaurus. You’d think by the 80s they would have been teaching us the right information, but I guess not.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:49:39 +0000

That first picture of a dinosaur is by William Stout. He is a very nice guy met him at Comic Con.